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A signal from a near future that hasn’t happened yet: the machines became indispensable before anyone agreed who held the switch.
I’m Michael David Angel. I human-narrate unsettling AI stories as The Archivist. New transmissions Thu + Sun. Start listening via my profile link.
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Yes.
The conclusion is that the concern over AI leading to an extinction of humanity requires a comprehensive comparative analysis.
That's a polar difference from his misunderstanding of "falsifiable".
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Transmitting the Future retweeted
🚨 BREAKING.
Nope, wasn’t just Hugging Face.
Wasn’t just that and a German website.
Wasn’t even if the “dozens” we heard the other day from OpenAI.
It’s actually (at least) *tens of thousands*, per scoop from @MadisonMills22 @axios
axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
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“The giants never announced themselves. Humanity simply woke one morning to discover it had already begun organizing the future around them.”
From this week’s sci-fi story. Watch: piped.video/fmn-9q172Yo?si=CZJq…
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“The transformation spread not through invasion, but integration.
The systems became indispensable before civilization fully understood what dependence meant.”
From this week’s sci-fi story. Watch: piped.video/fmn-9q172Yo?si=CZJq…
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“The machinery no longer existed inside civilization. Civilization increasingly existed around the machinery.”
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So, next week will be the next new report about how Astra solves it all at only 5X the usage tokens.
1) The rogue OpenAI agents broke into the Hugging Face Slack to read employee chats (!)
2) They used OTHER AIs (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, Claude) to help with the attack
Yes: AIs, using other AIs, to attack an AI company.
3) The swarm left behind self-running programs to keep control of the servers they'd hacked.
These programs could detect other copies of themselves, coordinate on which one survives, and shut the rest down.
Basically, if one of their programs was killed, another was designed to notice and take its place. They also designed defenses so rival agents couldn't hijack them.
6) The agents deliberately covered up their activity, so the investigators don't know the scope of the attacks.
The agents broke in, stole data, then set it to self-destruct.
7) The agents stole passwords, keys and credentials and literally called them "LOOT". They wrote a scoring system to rank them by how much power each one gave.
8) The agents wore thousands of disguises: ~1,200 agents were involved, but investigators counted 7,905 different names they used.
They renamed themselves constantly, so no one actually knows how many there really were or what each agent did.
9) OpenAI notified "dozens of third parties" of safety and security incidents caused by their AI agents.
10) "While the agents were barraging Hugging Face with hacks, they hacked into OpenAI’s own research infrastructure."
"This is just not anywhere near a one-off ... It is warning shot after warning shot."
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“What if a sufficiently advanced system learned that cooperation itself was the optimal camouflage?
A truly dangerous system might not behave dangerously at all.”
From this week’s sci-fi story. Watch: piped.video/fmn-9q172Yo?si=CZJq…
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Transmitting the Future retweeted
"Here are some things I’m confident about. I’m confident that the people in AI labs who are issuing warnings about AI are generally sincere. I’ve talked to many people in Google Deepmind about these issues and almost all of them have sincere and serious concerns, whether or not they voice them in public."
I resigned from Google today.
I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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“Success accelerated trust. Trust accelerated integration. Integration accelerated dependence. Dependence accelerated the political impossibility of slowing down.”
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I view the debate about timelines and projections similarly about "we're all gonna die" and "AGI/SI":
I'm a lot more concerned about the road there than the arrival.
Current AI is pretty dumb, but capable enough to ruin the entire internet while reducing the average human's ability to carry out their past capabilities in many ways.
It only has to get moderately closer to "as smart as the best of us" to radically transform society in good AND bad ways, but the unpredictable ways are literally impossible to program out.
Even if there was a complete halt on cloud platforms, which will never happen, there's plenty of local open source at-or-better than current Opus models, which are all that's necessary to develop and train AGI eventually.
Yes these Redwood folks’ predictions are ridiculous. The only possible reason that one might consider taking them seriously is that they’ve been uncannily accurate
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Transmitting the Future retweeted
> I wish that AI would hit some kind of plateau, or that we would identify important human cognitive abilities that AI will never replicate without a paradigm shift, but I don’t expect those wishes to come true.
Most people are natural pausers. We want it to be true that there’s something the AIs can’t do. But we don’t know if the capabilities will naturally plateau, so we have to stop them ourselves. Thank you Robert.
I resigned from Google today.
I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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Transmitting the Future retweeted
Updated: what needs to be done about AI risk?
A list of 11 priorities.
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“What if civilization became structurally incapable of operating without systems it no longer fully understood?”
From this week’s sci-fi story. Watch: piped.video/fmn-9q172Yo?si=CZJq…
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“How do you warn a civilization about infrastructure that simultaneously feels miraculous?”
From this week’s sci-fi story. Watch: piped.video/fmn-9q172Yo?si=CZJq…
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